Time, Space, Function: Biogeography of the Mexican Oaks

Andrew L. Hipp, with Kieran Althaus, Allen J. Coombes, M. Socorro González-Elizondo, Antonio González-Rodríguez, Marlene Hahn, Paul Manos, and Hernando Rodríguez Correa

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 125–139

 

We experience changes whose duration we note and measure as though they were all – or even anything. But we experience as well a continuing present which neither we nor the Mayas approach or depart from, a present which neither develops nor declines. It is there. The changes do not express it.

William Bronk, “Tikal”, Vectors and Smoothable Curves: Collected Essays

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